On 01/19/2018 02:32 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm building what hopefully will be R4.0-rc4 and I have two > reflections: > > 1. After upgrading templates to fedora-26 and debian-9, there is no way > the installation image will fit on DVD. Right now it takes 4908384256 > bytes. We probably could try to cut it down by eliminating even more > packages from templates, but I think there is no much non-essential > packages left there. For example we no longer ship vim in debian-9. > Right now I see two options: > - abandon the goal of fitting the image on DVD (I'd go for this) > - exclude some template from default installation...
Since most earlier Qubes releases also did not fit on 4.7GB DVD, I always assumed I'd need to use an 8.5GB DVD instead. This works fine. > > 2. grub suck at booting xen.efi (or rather: xen.efi is rather picky > about its environment). On many systems, booting xen.efi without grub > (using rEFInd, EFI shell, or simply by renaming it over BOOTX64.efi) > helps with boot problems. An idea: do not use grub on UEFI installation. > Downside: you loose boot menu - no way to choose or not media > verification, or rescue mode. And no way to adjust boot arguments, > needed on some platforms to workaround UEFI bugs... To do that, you'd > need to edit EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg using some other means. > Alternative: keep grub there, but provide an instruction how to boot > xen.efi directly, in short: > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # assuming /dev/sdb1 is installation USB > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg > umount /mnt > > After such operation, media verification would fail, obviously. I'd agree with the alternative, because there is a trade-off between grub's bugs and using grub to work around boot issues. Filing bug reports (or adding to them) for the grub/xen.efi problems could help. -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/0081b4bf-f293-7691-d3c6-b70374b688f0%40posteo.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
